One Million Lawyers-Tom Paxton

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:03.48]ONE MILLION LAWYERS [00:04.27]By Tom Paxton [00:05.09]Humankind has survived some disasters I'm sure [00:07.34]Like locusts and flash floods and flu [00:09.43] [00:10.77]There's never a moment when we've been secure [00:14.05]From the ills that the flesh is heir to [00:16.30] [00:17.30]If it isn't a war it's some gruesome disease [00:20.93]If it isn't disease then it's war [00:23.52] [00:24.17]But there's worse still to come and I'm asking you please [00:27.93]How the world's gonna take any more [00:30.75] [00:31.45]In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers [00:35.16]One million lawyers one million lawyers [00:38.27]In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers [00:41.61]How much can a poor nation stand [00:44.53] [00:48.39]The world shook with dread of Atilla the Hun [00:51.53]As he conquered with fire and steel [00:54.10] [00:55.22]And Genghis and Kubla and all of the Kahns [00:58.54]Ground a groaning world under the heel [01:00.89] [01:01.95]Disaster disaster so what else is new [01:05.34]We've suffered the worst and then some [01:08.36]So I'm sorry to tell you my suffering friends [01:12.09]Of the terrible scourge still to come [01:17.72] [01:18.32]CHORUS [01:19.33]BREAK [01:20.06] [01:21.75]Oh a suffering world cries for mercy [01:31.28]As far as the eye can see [01:35.53] [01:36.25]Lawyers around every bend in the road [01:39.35] [01:40.17]Laywers in every tree [01:43.00]Lawyers in restaurants lawyers in clubs [01:46.29]Lawyers behind every door [01:49.17]Behind windows and potted plants shade trees and shrubs [01:53.04]Lawyers on pogo sticks lawyers in politics [01:59.65] [02:01.60]CHORUS [02:02.74]In spring there's tornadoes and rampaging floods [02:12.70] [02:20.65]In summer it's heat stroke and draught [02:23.06] [02:24.28]There's Ivy League football to ruin the fall [02:27.49]It's a terrible scourge without doubt [02:30.04] [02:30.69]There are blizzards to batter the shivering plain [02:34.09]There are dust storms that strike but far worse [02:36.96] [02:37.48]Is the threat of disaster to shrivel the brain [02:40.97]It's the threat of implacable curse [02:44.60]In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers [02:48.30]One million lawyers one million lawyers [02:51.45]In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers [02:54.85]How much can a poor nation stand [02:58.29]How much can a poor nation stand